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title: Go back by the road thou camest, and lie as before, a night in each… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Go back by the road thou camest, and lie as before, a night in each house, but be careful not to unloose the bundle till thou art in the place wherein thou wouldst most wish to dwell.’ Who acts: you, thou. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28, with its d
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 45

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Go back by the road thou camest, and lie as before, a night in each house, but be careful not to unloose the bundle till thou art in the place wherein thou wouldst most wish to dwell.’

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**Who acts:** you, thou · **What happens:** go back, come, lie, be, not unloose, wish · **To what, where:** road, bundle

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, thou), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg3454:28:45
# text = Go back by the road thou camest, and lie as before, a night in each house, but be careful not to unloose the bundle till thou art in the place wherein thou wouldst most wish to dwell.’
1	Go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	back	back	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	by	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	7	nsubj	_	_
7	camest	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	lie	lie	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
11	as	as	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	before	before	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	18	det	_	_
18	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	cop	_	_
22	careful	careful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
23	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	unloose	unloose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	csubj	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	bundle	bundle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
29	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	30	nsubj	_	_
30	art	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	advcl	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
34	wherein	wherein	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	38	advmod	_	_
35	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	38	nsubj	_	_
36	wouldst	would	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
37	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	38	amod	_	_
38	wish	wish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
39	to	to	PART	TO	_	40	mark	_	_
40	dwell	dwell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go back** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by the road | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **come** | past | thou | the road *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location road=Theme |
| 3 | **lie** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  | night | before *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | careful *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **not** **unloose** | to-infinitive |  | the bundle |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **wish** | would | thou |  |  |  |  | wherein *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **dwell** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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